Wire-working tool.



No. 819,304. PATENTED MAY 1, 1906. D. L. MGKINNEY & G. W. HENDERSON.

WIRE WORKING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26,1905.

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DENNIS L. MCKINNEY AND GEORGE W. HENDERSON, OF FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA.

WIRE-WQRKING TOOL.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DENNIS L. McKin- NEY and GEORGE W. HENDERsoN,citizens of the United States, residing at Fairmont, in the county ofMarion and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Wire-Working Tool, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to wire-working tools, and While capable of usein many rela tions it is particularly designed for handling fence-wiresto stretch the same and then fasten them to the posts, and in thisconnection it is proposed to enable the separation of the two mainelements of the tool in order that they may be successively employed tostretch and then fasten a fence-wire, and it is also designed to enablethe stretching of the wire when the elements are assembled.

WVith these and other objects in View the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter morefully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularlypointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes inthe form, propor-v tion, size, and minor details may be made within thescope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing anyof the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the present implementapplied to a post in position for stretching a fence-wire. Figs. 2

and 3 are detail perspective views of the two principal members of thetool separated. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the wire-clamp, the cammember being in section.

Like characters of reference designate cor responding parts in all ofthe figures of the drawings.

The present tool includes crossed handle members 10 and 15, whichterminate at corresponding ends in cooperating jaws 12 and 24,respectively, and are provided at their points of crossing with therespective disk portions or segmental portions 28 and 27, respectively.The segmental portion 28 is centrally pierced by a circular opening 23,and a slot 22 diametrically intersects the opening and projects at oneside thereof, while the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 26,1905. Serial No- 271,333.

Patented May 1, 1906.

part 27 of the other member is provided with a central stud 20, having across-head 21, thereby constituting a T-shaped pin or post capable ofbeing passed through the slot 22 to form a separable pivotal connectionbetween the crossed members.

Upon that side of the part 27 which is 0pposite the stud 20 is awire-clamp made up of a shoulder or abutment 18, with which cooperates ahandled cam 16, pivotally connected to the part 27, as at 17.

What will be termed the outer edgeof the part 28 is provided with asubstantially radial projection or shoulder 11, the forward side ofwhich is concaved, as at 13, and merges into the back or outer face ofthe jaw 12, so as to constitute a bearing-face, as will be hereinafterdescribed.

I/Vith the two main elements assembled, as

in Fig. 1, a fence-wire, such as shown at 19, is

engaged by the wire-clamp, and the concaved face 13 of the shoulder orprojection 11 is placed against the fence-post 14, whereupon the tool isswung upon the post as a fulcrum, so as to stretch the wire.

By separating the main elements of the tool and engaging the wire withthe wireclamp and by placing the jaw 24 or the part 27 against the postas a fulcrum the wire may be stretched by manipulating the handle 15 asa lever, and then the element 10 may be used to drive a staple or otherfastening into the post for securing the wire thereto, the shoulder orextension 11 serving as a hammer-head;

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. Awire-working tool comprising a pair of crossed members havingcorresponding ends terminating in cooperating aws and their other endsformed into handles, a wireclamp upon one side of one of the members,and a T-shaped pin carried by the other side of said member, and theother member being provided with an opening intersected by a diametricslot for the detachable pivotal reception of the T-shaped pin.

2. A wire-working tool comprising a pair of crossed members having aseparablepivotal connectionand provided with cooperating jaw and handleterminals, one of the as our own we have hereto afiixed our signermembers being provided with a lateral protures in the presence of twowitnesses.

jection at the inner end of the saw with its DENNIS L. MCKINNEY. frontface concaved and merging into the GEORGE WV. HENDERSON. 5 back of thejaw, and a wire-c1amp carried by Witnesses:

the other member. F. M. WALDO,

In testimony that we claim the foregoing W. H. GARLOW.

